July 7, 2010
I write a fair amount here on Mission to Learn about focused learning; about things like carving out time for learning, setting goals, concentrating, practicing, and reflecting. These are all necessary activities for mastering particular skills or bodies of knowledge, but they are, of course, only the more obvious, visible aspects of what we tend [...]
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April 9, 2009
I’m getting close to finishing up The Blue Sweater by Jaqueline Novogratz, a personal memoir in which Novogratz tells the story of the journey from her “first stumbling efforts as a young idealist venturing forth in Africa” to the creation of the Acumen Fund, the philanthropic venture capital firm she runs today. Along the way [...]
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